curls

noun

a strand or cluster of hair

American chemist who with Richard Smalley and Harold Kroto discovered fullerenes and opened a new branch of chemistry (born in 1933)

a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals)

verb

play the Scottish game of curling

twist or roll into coils or ringlets

wind around something in coils or loops

shape one's body into a curl

form a curl, curve, or kink

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